I am so done with this season. In fact, things really have sunk so low by now, in the depressingly steady decline since that fateful Championship Game against the Tide in #15's last season--Now NINE SEASONS AGO!!!--that I have finally sunk to the point that a part of me really DOES now, if not root against our team (I just cannot do that, even now), secretly take no pleasure, find no hope in wins which only preserve this Head Coach's tenure, the perpetual "vision of mediocrity" he in truth aims for--the at best "uninspiring" onfield product he is in fact satisfied with long as it keeps him employed.
I am sick of going on about it, too--I apologize, and will have to find some other approach here at GE if I am to carry on. I'm still at a loss as to what that approach might be, but I know I better find something, some way to get a handle on things that ISN'T so much a constant angry rant--for y'all's sake AND my own.
Before embarking on that search, I have to repeat, sharpen focus on a point we've all had to face and suffer with, more and more over these last few seasons:
The PROOF of how badly things have gone for so long, all one has to do is to see which and how MANY programs have sunk over those years, found themselves a "good fit" at Coach, recruited their asses off and, one by one, are now in the process of re-rising from those "lowest lows".
Each of you could come up with a sizeable list of examples right off the top of your heads...It goes beyond disappointment or envy, too: It's a complete damned PISS OFF.
Hell, I'll just give you ONE, one that embodies everything I'm saying and we've all witnessed variations on...
Penn State. Think about where they were, where they fell to with publicity and sanctions, the heights of (albeit over-rated) respect down to condemnation and public contempt--but eventually brought in (what for them turns out to be) the right coach, and in relatively short order (while we meanwhile flounder, sinking deeper and deeper) they quietly rebuild, strongly recruit with a particular plan and future-form in mind.
At UF, in the same period THREE COACHES first fumbled away our elite status, then collectively oversaw our continued slide, while PSU, in the face of numerous handicaps, has re-risen to the very TOP of college football.
For us, that isn't just "bad luck". It is some combination of the poor coaching we see and, behind it, mismanagement by the AD and those who with him in truth run the program--those who found and continue to permit the latest loser to run us into a deeper hole. All for ridiculous amounts in annual salaries the whole time, too.
I am sick of going on about it, too--I apologize, and will have to find some other approach here at GE if I am to carry on. I'm still at a loss as to what that approach might be, but I know I better find something, some way to get a handle on things that ISN'T so much a constant angry rant--for y'all's sake AND my own.
Before embarking on that search, I have to repeat, sharpen focus on a point we've all had to face and suffer with, more and more over these last few seasons:
The PROOF of how badly things have gone for so long, all one has to do is to see which and how MANY programs have sunk over those years, found themselves a "good fit" at Coach, recruited their asses off and, one by one, are now in the process of re-rising from those "lowest lows".
Each of you could come up with a sizeable list of examples right off the top of your heads...It goes beyond disappointment or envy, too: It's a complete damned PISS OFF.
Hell, I'll just give you ONE, one that embodies everything I'm saying and we've all witnessed variations on...
Penn State. Think about where they were, where they fell to with publicity and sanctions, the heights of (albeit over-rated) respect down to condemnation and public contempt--but eventually brought in (what for them turns out to be) the right coach, and in relatively short order (while we meanwhile flounder, sinking deeper and deeper) they quietly rebuild, strongly recruit with a particular plan and future-form in mind.
At UF, in the same period THREE COACHES first fumbled away our elite status, then collectively oversaw our continued slide, while PSU, in the face of numerous handicaps, has re-risen to the very TOP of college football.
For us, that isn't just "bad luck". It is some combination of the poor coaching we see and, behind it, mismanagement by the AD and those who with him in truth run the program--those who found and continue to permit the latest loser to run us into a deeper hole. All for ridiculous amounts in annual salaries the whole time, too.